Mayor Eric Adams.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Images Workplace
Mayor Eric Adams went on the warpath Thursday as questions proceed to linger over the longer term and viability of his reelection bid.
Adams mentioned that he’ll “forge ahead,” whereas lashing out at his rivals and claiming his marketing campaign has been “undermined” by a “coordinated effort” to cripple its fundraising means.
Hizzoner, throughout an unrelated Sept. 25 press convention, launched assaults at each Democratic nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Nevertheless, he appeared to spare former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’s polling in second place.
Adams charged that Mamdani, a democratic socialist operating on an affordability-focussed platform, has been knowingly promoting voters a invoice of products to be able to win the November basic election.
Particularly, Adams accused Mamdani of deceptive New Yorkers along with his proposal to freeze rents for town’s practically a million stabilized tenants. He claimed there are a lot of individuals, together with one unnamed New York Metropolis Housing Authority (NYCHA) resident he spoke with, who don’t stay in stabilized housing, however are beneath the misunderstanding that the hire freeze would apply to them.
“Zohran is smart and if he was unknowledgable about the powers of the mayor, then you could say ‘well, he’s just not knowledgable,’” Adams mentioned. “But when you are smart and you understand the powers of the mayor and you’re going out and having NYCHA residents feeling as though you’re going to freeze their rent…then you’re no longer doing it on the point of ignorance, you’re doing it on being diabolical. And that’s hurtful.”
Mamdani’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to Adams’ broadsides.
Adams additionally took goal at Sliwa, who’s forward of him within the polls.
Requested about Sliwa on Wednesday accusing Cuomo’s allies of providing him jobs and money to drop out of the mayor’s race, Adams surprisingly declined to go after the previous governor — who has been the goal of his ire in current weeks.
As an alternative, he responded: “The only fact about Curtis Sliwa, is that Curtis Sliwa is a liar.”
“It’s almost laughable whenever we quote anything from Curtis Sliwa,” he added.
Sliwa’s didn’t instantly reply to Adams’ remarks. His marketing campaign as a substitute shared a social media publish from Sliwa saying: “I cannot be bought. I will not stand by while my supporters are silenced. Any attempt to intimidate our campaign or voters will be reported.”
Cuomo’s marketing campaign spokesperson Wealthy Azzopardi denied Sliwa’s accusations to NY1 and labeled him “liar and a fraudster.”
In the case of the way forward for Adams flagging camapaign, he alleged there’s a shadowy effort by unnamed inidivuals to deprive his bid of much-needed funds.
The mayor pointed to town Marketing campaign Finance Board’s (CFB) resolution to withhold hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in matching funds from his marketing campaign within the wake of his now dismissed federal indictment.
The board has renewed its resolution practically a dozen occasions, shifting its reasoning from Adams’ scuttled bribery case to accusations that his marketing campaign has not supplied requested info and should have violated the legislation.
Adams has sued the CFB in an effort to reverse its choices and unlock the funds, to this point to no avail.
“This campaign, going into the race, I lost $4 million,” Adams mentioned. “We’re in court right now fighting with the Campaign Finance Board to get our $4 million.”
Moreover, Adams mentioned, his means to fundraise is being stymied by persistent reported rumors that he’s trying to exit the race and take a job in both President Trump’s administration, as a attainable Saudi Arabia ambassador, or within the non-public sector. He has repeatedly denied these stories publicly, at the same time as they’ve continued to come back out.
“Every week, persons are saying, ‘Eric is leaving tomorrow,’” Adams said of the rumors. “When I go to my funders, they say ‘Eric we thought you were in Saudi Arabia.’ My marketing campaign has been decimated.”
The mayor mentioned his lack of marketing campaign funds has led prevented him from getting his message out to voters.
“We have been just undermined with a very coordinated effort,” he mentioned. “‘Let’s shut off his oxygen, the money, and then he won’t be able to breath.’”
